Top 100 Self Loving Quotes
#2. Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.
Bell Hooks
#3. The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy.
Cody McFadyen
#4. This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.
Peter McWilliams
#5. Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.
Maximus The Confessor
#6. When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small.
My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
Kim McMillen
#7. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.
Irvin D. Yalom
#8. Self-loving choices look like health and they taste like freedom.
Bethany Eaton
#9. Didn't dreaming about flying mean you were a self-loving little shit?
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
Cornel West
#11. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
Mandy Hale
#13. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
Ellen J. Barrier
#14. When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
Eckhart Tolle
#16. Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do ... tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
Ken Robinson
#17. I don't date as an active activity anymore because the work of loving myself is enough.
Gita Jackson
#18. Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.
Karen Salmansohn
#19. You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.
Annette Funicello
#20. Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
M. Scott Peck
#21. Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Loving yourself is the most fulfilling and beautiful love that life has to offer.
Unfortunately, we're all looking to love someone else..
we're all looking to be loved by someone else, first.
Reyna Mays
#23. And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.
Aspen Matis
#25. Be wary of a self-professed "nice guy". Anyone who is always going around saying they are "just trying to be nice" are most often, anything but nice. -If you're truly kind and loving, you don't have to "try". It comes naturally.
Miya Yamanouchi
#26. Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe
Mike Dooley
#27. Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.
Russ Von Hoelscher
#28. I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
Lena Dunham
#29. All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.
Sheila Kitzinger
#30. To love one's self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.
T. Scott McLeod
#31. How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.
Fulton J. Sheen
#32. Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.
Orlan
#33. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
Daniel Klein
#35. Those that are meant to be in your life won't degrade you, judge you, or talk about you, because they're too busy loving you and uplifting you. If you put your faith in fickle opinions you'll never be good enough. Focus on God's truth and purpose for your life and you'll find your perfect self
Trent Shelton
#36. There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self
because she does not know where to find it.
Lawrence Durrell
#37. Christians have their attitude toward God changed from one of duty to free, loving self-giving because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.
Timothy J. Keller
#39. The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.
Larry Crabb
#40. Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
Criss Jami
#41. There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.
Susan L. Taylor
#42. Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
Paul Valery
#43. Loving yourself costs nothing, but not loving yourself could cost you everything.
B.D. Jordan
#44. Jesus faithfully and courageously represented the nonviolent and loving heart of God. Jesus and his way of nonviolent, self-giving love, the text suggests, will earn the trust of all humanity. We will ultimately migrate, in other words, toward the way of Jesus.
Brian D. McLaren
#45. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.
Debra Beck
#46. How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
David Sheff
#47. If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable.
Kemi Sogunle
#49. Boys need healthy self-esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them. If that were so they would all be well.
Bell Hooks
#50. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?
Matt Shea
#51. Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self.
Edgar Cayce
#52. Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.
Kathleen Norris
#53. Maybe it's NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.
Mandy Hale
#54. The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
M. Scott Peck
#55. It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.
James McBride
#56. ... I am done being in love with you."
"Why?"
"I am in love with someone else. Someone who needs it more than you."
"Who?"
"Me.
Nikita Gill
#57. We are here on planet Earth to learn lessons and to grow in loving knowledge.
Pamela Cummins
#58. It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds
Alice Nicholls
#59. One of the easiest things for a rescuer to do is to love people without a soul because we genuinely believe that our love can fill the void inside them. Unfortunately, it drains us of our own love. The love of self.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
Tara Brach
#61. I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself
in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.
Elizabeth Kim
#62. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.
Mandy Hale
#63. God has graciously called us; now we must live up to that calling. That cannot mean less than that we should become increasingly holy, self-denying, loving, full of integrity, steeped in the knowledge of God and his Word, delighted to trust and obey our heavenly Father.
D. A. Carson
#64. Loving yourself doesn't make you selfish. When done correctly, the exact opposite occurs, because you know that selfish behaviors are negative for your mind, body and spirit.
Donald L. Hicks
#65. I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.
James McGreevey
#66. To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#67. Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.
J. Grant Howard
#68. Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#69. Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.
Mandy Hale
#70. Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#71. So far, she'd been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction.
Lena Kaligaris
Ann Brashares
#72. Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#73. The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!
Dave Hunt
#74. To look in the mirror and smile is a challenge for many people. Those who do so without the slightest scowl are indeed fortunate.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.
Gary Zukav
#76. Is the economy going to collapse if we continue down this road? Yes. Should Americans be self-reliant? Yes. Absolutely ... I think loving our neighbors is being prepared to give them food. Loving our neighbors is being prepared to protect them.
Matt Shea
#77. I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn't seem much different from not loving.
Tom Stoppard
#78. No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.
Gore Vidal
#79. And loving you was a pattern of self-discovery because some way, somehow I always ended up learning something new about myself.
Robert M. Drake
#80. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.
Harry Papas
#81. An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!
Mandy Hale
#82. Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
Kate Reardon
#83. You're beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.
Mandy Hale
#84. Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.
Amit Ray
#85. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.
Mandy Hale
#86. Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love
James E. Faust
#87. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway,
#88. [G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)
Penelope Quest
#89. Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
Iyanla Vanzant
#90. MASSIMO: "After all I have done, to have you love me is nothing less than a miracle."
BELINDA: He was wrong. Loving him was the easiest thing in the world. That they'd found each other after their respective histories was the miracle.
Billy London
#91. People like Brian and me don't lose contact with our parents because we don't care; we lose contact with them to survive. We never stop loving, and we never lose hope that our loved ones will change. Rather, we are forced, either by wisdom or by the law, to take the path of self-preservation.
J.D. Vance
#92. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.
Erica Jong
#93. Lots of women think that a loving relationship starts by falling in love with someone.That road, often unpaved and unmarked and at times filled with stones to easily trip on, is the road to self-love.
Barbara Becker Holstein
#94. Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#95. The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago.
Gabriela M. Sanchez
#96. Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.
Golda Poretsky
#97. Loving oneself
Is the most primal
Of all survival mechanisms
Karen Hackel
#98. The growing "epidemic" of stress, lifestyle diseases, and autoimmune diseases has no root cause according to mainstream medicine, yet that root cause seems simple to us: it's really an epidemic of not loving the self.
Louise L. Hay
#99. When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone.
Deborah Sandella
#100. My Dear Friend,
Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.
Miya Yamanouchi
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